What we found was extraordinary. A small group of seven accounts, many unknown a year ago, were racking up hundreds of millions of views each day, out-performing standard news accounts by an order of magnitude and exercising significant influence on the discourse around the war. X’s owner, Elon Musk, had interacted with or explicitly recommended…
Trolling and doxxing: Graduate students sharing their research online speak out about hate
An increasingly volatile online environment is affecting our society, including members of the academic community and research they pursue. Graduate students are especially vulnerable to online hate, because cultivating a visible social media presence is considered essential for mobilizing their research, gaining credibility and finding opportunities as they prepare to compete in an over-saturated job market. Our research has examined the…
A debate brews among Black Ivy League students over representation on campus
Michaela Glavin did not feel a sense of belonging in the Black community when she arrived as a freshman at Harvard. The Black student body was warm and welcoming, but as a multigenerational African American — a descendant of enslaved Africans brought to the U.S. — she said she felt like “a minority within a…
Hip Hop: A Culture of Vision and Voice
Hip hop is global, lapping on every shore and landing at every airport. But what does hip hop mean? Is it the music with a chest-thumping beat? The rapid-fire lyrics rapped into a handheld mic? Gravity-defying dance steps? Writers turning walls into canvases with larger-than-life letters and illustrations? The answer is all of the above—and more. Hip hop…
Man sentenced for federal hate crimes against Idaho LGBTQ+ community
Matthew Lehigh was first arrested in October 2022 after Boise police received reports of him yelling threats, homophobic slurs BY: MIA MALDONADO – NOVEMBER 2, 2023 In the Idaho capitol sun PHOTO: Shows pride flags on display throughout the North End neighborhood in Boise. (Mia Maldonado / Idaho Capital Sun) Warning: This story includes descriptions of threats and…
The scapegoating of Asian Americans
“The important thing to remember is that this is really not an exceptional moment by any means,” said Sato. “But it’s really part of a much longer genealogy of anti-Asian violence that reaches as far back as the 19th century.” Sato pointed to the Chinese massacre of 1871, when a mob in Los Angeles’ Chinatown…
An urgent need exists to investigate the cross-cultural differences in technology privacy attitudes and behaviors
While privacy regulation exists in almost every culture, the specific behavioral and psychological mechanisms that people use to regulate privacy boundaries are culturally unique. Since the 1960s, when privacy mostly concerned physical access to an individual’s surroundings and private space, researchers had found that people in different cultures are universally aware and capable of regulating…
Identifying Barriers to Effective Intercultural Communication
One such barrier is ethnocentrism. Any intercultural interaction will be influenced by an individual’s ethnocentrism, or the belief that one’s culture (“in-group”) is superior to another’s culture (“out-group”). All humans are to some extent ethnocentric, falling somewhere on a scale between “low” and “high” ethnocentricity. High or low levels of ethnocentricity influence an individual’s ability to…
International students and the types of discrimination they face
Linguistic racism First on our list of different types of discrimination is linguistic discrimination, or ethnic-accent bullying. This happens when a person is treated differently based on his or her accent. For example, a foreign student may often be “‘heard,’ ‘seen,’ or ‘imagined’ speaking ‘bad’ or ‘low proficient’ English irrespective of their actual high-level in English”. Joy Nath, a…
All the public libraries offering free access to banned books: a comprehensive guide
Brooklyn Public Library: Books Unbanned The Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned program was the first of its kind to offer access to collections to teenagers and young adults nationwide. It has expanded to several more libraries (outlined below). The details of the program: Read the full story HERE.
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